It’s amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they’re no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.
Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en
Hopefully we wont see bad actors just pivot to f2p and have a few microtransactions to actually unlock the games.
I don’t think that would work. They could lock their games behind a monthly subscription. At that point you’re paying for temporary access with clearly defined end date and thus the game getting shut down later is no longer fraudulend. At that point you just have to not be a dumbass and rent a game instead of buying one.
Even subscription games should be made playable/hostable after they are shutdown. No game should be immune.
You have a plan for that?
I dont need a plan, I dont host a subscription game.
The full hearing has some gems such as Catarina Vieira drowning the EU Parliament in gamer memes
That was such a cool way to demonstrate how these iconic games became a part of our culture. They should be able to be archived and preserved like any art.
